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The Paperbark Shoe
Take an albino piano-playing prodigy who has been committed to a mental hospital by her evil stepfather, marry her to…
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
Louisa Catherine Adams, best known in history as the wife of President John Quincy Adams, is the main character in…
The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno
In 1865, the complacent Bartholomew Fortuno, billed as the World’s Thinnest Man by P.T. Barnum, enjoys his life as one…
Little Gods
This is a story revolving around four people, Jean, Gloria, Jack and Denny. It begins in England just before WWII.…
An Incomplete Revenge
As a Maisie Dobbs newcomer, for me this book was a revelation. It is fresh, unpretentious, and totally gripping. Unlike…
A Beautiful Place to Die
Editors' choice
South Africa, 1952. Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper is sent to investigate the murder of Afrikaner police officer Captain Willem Pretorius…
Scottsboro
In Alabama in 1931, young people hitching rides on a freight train have a brawl. A group of white…
The Sound of Butterflies
Set in 1903 the book follows the adventures of Thomas Edgar, collector of butterflies, during an expedition to the Amazon,…
Filming: A Love Story
In 1947 the subcontinent of India gained independence from Great Britain and religious freedom, resulting in the partition of the…
Van Rijn
The subject of Sarah Miano’s second novel is Rembrandt van Rijn. This is by no means a conventional fictional biography…
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